Bug#189058: base-installer segfaults during install

[joe@nahmias.net (Joe Nahmias)]

Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:49:13PM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> > I: Retrieving http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Pakcages.gz
> > Segmentation fault
> > base-installer's postinst exited with status 35584
> > installer[44]: Configuring 'base-installer' failed with error code 256
> > installer[44]: Menu item 'base-installer' failed.
> > ===========
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> I believe debootstrap uses wget to download. Can you wget files
> manually? Trying to pin down whether wget is segfaulting or 
> debootstrap. You might be able to add options to wget to make it 
> verbose. You can add --verbose to the debootstrap call.
Chris,

I believe wget is working since IIRC it was used to download the
installer modules from the net.  I will try debootstrap --verbose and
report back.

Joe